Re: Redo consistent keybindings for all. Ctrl+Shift+Z

Alan Horkan wrote:

>I didn't spot it at the time but Frank changed the Mac OS X version of
>abiword to use different keybindings from the other platforms.
>http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8058
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>The thing is that the Gnome Human Interface guidelines borrow heavily from
>the Apple Guidelines and they also recommend using the keybinding
>Ctrl+Shift+Z for Redo. (Gnumeric 1.5 still uses Ctrl+Y but if Abiword
>changes they might be willing to change too.)
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>This leaves only Windows as the odd one out and I think at this stage it
>would be best to keep Abiword consistent with Abiword than keep using the
>old Microsoft keybinding only on windows.
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>What do people think?
>
>Sincerely
>
>Alan Horkan
>
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I would have to disagree, and vote for maintaining the original
keybinding. Parity with the rest of the platform, especially with
accelerators/keybindings that the user may use without looking up first,
should take priority over parity within all the frontends of AbiWord
across platforms. The "old Microsoft keybinding" (which I think is also
the old pre-X Apple one, coincidentally) is the one used in all Windows
apps that act like Windows apps, and to break the trend would provide an
unneccessary barrier to adoption. A platform migration changes a good
deal more than keybindings, so this doesn't worry me in that aspect, and
users who regularily use both platforms I reckon would be familiar with
both guidelines.

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